Making Job Search Easier by Finding the Great Companies First

Can data lead to a more beautiful you? Helen and Annie from Piqued (pronounced like picked) think so. They have created a product designed to help you find the best beauty products for your skin and look. Using a data driven model and information from your past experiences Piqed will help you choose the beauty products that will work best for you. The global cosmetics market was $460 billion in 2014 and, according to Hahn, their focus is on the premium segment of the business which she estimates at $50 billion. Available now as an IOS app the service is expected to have a more formal launch in the fall. I spoke with Helen Hahn and Annie Peng from Piqed and learned why they started this business, the problems they are solving and about the business opportunity. Roy: This is Roy Weissman from MediaJobs.com. Today we’re talking with Helen Hahn and Annie Peng from Piqed. Helen: We tried to solve a problem that a lot of women face when choosing skincare products. You walk into a store and maybe from hearsay or a friend’s recommendation, you pick up a product. You try it and then you realize that it doesn’t…

If you’re looking for a virtual reality media job and you are a history buff then Timelooper could be the place for you. Travel back 750 years of more using this new mobile app from Timelooper. Timelooper is a location based virtual reality mobile application created to provide more dimensions to your travel. In the UK experience the German bombers from World War 2 or witness the great fire of London. Virtual Reality technology seems to be developing faster than the programming for it. Timelooper makes deals with locations and venues to bring their stories to life. The monetization is obvious. You’ve got to pay to play but the possibilities are endless. While the Timelooper folks are looking forward to putting together partnerships with the great historic landmarks from around the world, I see the opportunity to be much larger. Imaging going to a location in New York, Los Angeles or anywhere and being able to experience the the great fire of London or the colonists landing at Battery Park in New York. Currently available at some locations in London, Timelooper is expected to open in New York in 2016. I was able to talk with Alper Ozyurtlu, the Chief…

Media Jobs are constantly changing these days, so sometimes it’s difficult to keep up with which companies you should be looking at when you’re pursuing your dream job. One key component to always consider for future employment opportunities is which are the most innovative media companies, those that are pushing boundaries and exploring new possibilities. Innovation drives the future. We’re only halfway through 2016, so a good place to start is to look at the companies who were considered at the top of the media jobs innovation curve last year. The good people over at Fast Company made a list early last year of the top 10 media companies in terms of innovation for 2015. Media Jobs decided to recap these for you so that you can do your own retrospective analysis and see if these companies are still worth putting on your short list. We think you’ll decide that most of them are. 1. The Washington Post A newspaper? Yes indeed. While many newspaper companies are already dead and just don’t know it yet, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos breathed new life into the Post when he acquired it in 2013. Not only has the Post survived, it’s now thriving in the digital…

Artificial Intelligence is quickly becoming the next big “industrial revolution”, both in this country and around the globe. If you are an AI developer, this could be a “gold rush” for some great job opportunities. Those who gain experience in Artificial Intelligence today will be the AI leaders of tomorrow. At Media Jobs we suggest that if you want to get in on the ground floor of the growing demand for jobs in artificial intelligence, now is the time. Many of the largest companies including Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are quickly and steadily acquiring startups in the artificial intelligence space to get a head start towards incorporating AI into all their products. From Games to Customer Service You may have heard about the growing trend in chatbots, particularly with Facebook Messenger. Bots are being launched left and right on Messenger and other messaging platforms for a variety of reasons, from enabling consumers to order their fast food through messaging to eventually replacing most of the staff at customer service call centers. While some of these functions are simply query services that don’t require extra “thinking”, many companies and AI developers are betting big on the advances being made in AI to replace…

The artificial Intelligence lead machine has arrived! The name of the lead master is Fusemachines and Sameer Maskey is the Founder and CEO and his team have been developing the software that applies Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to the process of lead generation for B2B companies. At Media Jobs we are always interested in finding the most innovative companies where you might want to work. The big talk today is about Artificial Intelligence and today we’re talking with a company that is using the technology to drive more sales. Its taken 3 PHD’s and 30 engineers to create SAM, the name they are calling their AI system. But it gets better. SAM interacts with humans through emails, mobile apps and sales software and learns from user behavior to perform some of the same tasks automatically. SAM learns and improves itself everyday! Today, with a staff of 80 the company is blazing a trail to take the pain out of lead gen so that us humans can focus more on cash generation then lead generation. If you like what you hear check out some of the jobs available now at Fusemachines. In this podcast I speak with Alex Roeskestad from Fusemachines…